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Life

A native of Strasbourg, France, he was a student of Louis Pasteur at the Sorbonne. In 1876, he became a professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the Sorbonne.

Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877,¹² and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.

Friedel's wife's father was the engineer, Charles Combes.³ The Friedel family is a rich lineage of French scientists:

• Georges Friedel (1865–1933), French crystallographer and mineralogist; son of Charles
• Edmond Friedel (1895–1972), French Polytechnician and mining engineer, founder of BRGM, the French geological survey; son of Georges
• Jacques Friedel (1921–2014), French physicist; son of Edmond

Further reading

• Bataille, Xavier; Braum, Georges (1998). "La découverte de la réaction de Friedel et Crafts". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIC. 1 (4): 293–296. doi:10.1016/S1387-1609(98)80048-0.
• Crafts, J. M. (1900). "Friedel Memorial Lecture". Journal of the Chemical Society. 77. The Society: 993–1019. doi:10.1039/ct9007700993.
• Willemart, Antoine (1949). "Charles Friedel (1832–1899)". Journal of Chemical Education. 26 (1): 3–9. Bibcode:1949JChEd..26....3W. doi:10.1021/ed026p3.

External links

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Friedel, Charles" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 215.
• Charles Friedel

References

1. Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc". Compt. Rend. 84: 1392–1395. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30410/f1386.table ↩

2. Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc". Compt. Rend. 84: 1450–1454. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30410/f1444.table ↩

3. Charles Combes Archived May 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, quercy.net, accessed April 2010 http://www.quercy.net/hommes/ccombes.html ↩